Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
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Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them, What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou?
John
GospelsI have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahWithout counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
Proverbs
WisdomDepart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsTo go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsTruly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonYea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahWhen thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielLet mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it.
Ruth
HistoryBecause they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahTo crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahMuch every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAfterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.
Numbers
Law / MosesThe children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsMy help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.